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Isaiah 34:9

What does Isaiah 34:9 mean?

A plain-English look at Isaiah 34:9 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

And its streams will be turned into boiling oil, and its dust into burning stone, and all the land will be on fire.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

And turned have been her streams to pitch, And her dust to brimstone, And her land hath become burning pitch.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the ground thereof into brimstone: and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

And the torrents thereof shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone; yea, the land thereof shall become burning pitch:

Context

v.8For Jehovah hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

v.9This passage

v.10It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Genesis 19:28

    and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the Plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

  • Job 18:15

    There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

  • Revelation 21:8

    But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

  • Revelation 19:20

    And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought the signs in his sight, wherewith he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them that worshipped his image: they two were cast alive into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone:

  • Deuteronomy 29:23

    and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

  • Luke 17:29

    but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all:

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